Rail-joint.



E. H, HIGGINS.

RAIL JOINT.

APPLIOATIOH FILED JUNE 26, 1912.

Paw tea Dec. 3, 191

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To all whom it may concem'b;

Be it known that L IQDMON a. citizen oi? the United Sta is, Portland, in the county of liinltnommi and State of @regon, have lllV-Slllffil vermin new and useful ll'nprovements in liailwloinis. of which the following is a specification, u i once being had to the iwcompmi ving (i1 m ings.

This invention compi'eliomls certain 11 w and lisoif'ui imprm-emenis in rail f ints 22ml relates more particularly to join of this nature which may be secm'ed in position Without the use of bolts.

The primary object of the invention is lo provide a, 'boltlessrail joint which shall be extremely simple in construction, cheap lo manufacture and which may easily applied. to the meeting encls of i'sils.

The invention also aims to gensrziily improve clevices of. this nature, to sends]? them more useful and commercially losimble.

-i /'itii these and other objects in via"?? as shall become apparent t-lio flQSCliPliQii proceenis, the invention consists (asst-aim novel feat-lures of construction. 21.116. mmogs meat of parts as 1 shall. hereinafter fullydescribe and claim.

For a complete mi'ierstzmding of r-w 'ventlon, reference is to be haul to tho foliowing lesoriptioii and the accompanying L i1&W ings, in which Figure 1 is a sicle elevation of my mi joini: a portion of 011s of the fish plates 8w mg broken sway; Fi i2 is a View taken on horizontal plane passed semi-rally through l; .3 is a sectional View taken on the plane of line 3-3 of Fig. 1., iszz perspective View of the locking key.

In the following clescripiicn zmol aeoom panying clmwing similar parts r ei sri'ocl to by like reference onaraoters.

Befsrriiig to tire drawin by numerals, and 2 designate mils of ilie ordinary 0onsiruction, sachpi'ovideci with a head a Web 4: and base flanges 5. The coupling #6 which if have provicled for il s purpose of securing tho masking ends of these comprises a pair opp sad fish planes- 7 heici in parallel spscs relationship Foo integrally formal longitudinally extonilin, ism 5 rs 5.9.": ills coupliim 6 i. 24.3;

"V and l or ies posi" ion. the :1 thin the f/l0. will :ooa i1 tion '1. mo

'lllio is if oinezi on i lie, iivisn v Then the mils are ifsc i .is in longiiualinai aiinemoni. has been alone, the coupling; is Warol iii/a rail 3 until one id o con taoss with tile ino i wall oin which posiiion'iii Jo. pl upon ho miis veniw From Erection will be on of pm" mgends disposed s, the other positiened provided aljw Jet-tom With 

